(n.) One of a group of ruminant quadrupeds, intermediate between the deer and the goat. The horns are usually annulated, or ringed. There are many species in Africa and Asia.
Example Sentences:
(1) Species whose embryos have been successfully preserved include mouse, rat, rabbit, sheep, goat, cattle, horse, antelope, baboon, and human.
(2) Dik-dik antelopes lost about 50% more heat evaporatively when exposed to the sun compared to the shade at an ambient temperature (Ta) of 28 degrees C or a Ta of 40 degrees C in a climatic chamber.
(3) The maintenance crude protein (CP) requirements of subadult nilgai antelope (Boselaphus tragocamelus) were determined by nitrogen balance.
(4) The course of experimental infection of a type SAT 1 FMDV strain was studied in buffalo, sable antelope and eland following tongue inoculation and contact and has been compared with that in cattle.
(5) The Antelope Valley Hospital Medical Center Family Practice Program has initiated an innovative project which involves residents serving as team physicians for local college athletic teams.
(6) Proteinaceous extracts of deer and antelope antlers and bovine and rhinoceros horn were prepared by solubilizing 10 mg of horn sample in 200 microL of a solution containing 12M urea, 74mM Trizma base, and 78mM dithiothreitol (DTT).
(7) This report describes a study of goiter in a nondomesticated bovine species, bongo antelope (Tragelaphus eurycerus), an African bovid.
(8) The Antelope on Mitcham Road has a choice of three open fires where you can affix your undergarments.
(9) Twelve species of ixodid ticks were recovered; the antelope each harboured 9 species and the hares 11.
(10) Animal species included black-tailed deer (Odocoileus hemionus columbianus), mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus), sika deer (Cervus nippon nippon), fallow deer (Dama dama), and pronghorn antelope (Antilocapra americana).
(11) Alkaline phosphatase values in the 4 cervid species were higher than in the pronghorn antelope.
(12) He suffered several injuries in the crash and was being treated at Antelope Valley hospital, the sheriff’s office said in a statement.
(13) A trio of antelope species found in Africa are also now near threatened for the same reason.
(14) These DNA probes distinguish among deer, elk, and antelope, although not between different species of deer.
(15) Under controlled conditions, the rate of oxygen consumption (VO2) respiratory frequency, evaporative water loss, heat balance, rectal (Trec) and surface temperatures were determined in the dik-dik antelopes at ambient temperatures (Ta) ranging from 1 to 44 degrees C. 2.
(16) The parasite was recovered from the subdural space of one reindeer and was seen histologically within the neuropil of another reindeer and a sable antelope.
(17) Eagle-eyed viewers noticed that two male antelopes in last year’s Zootopia – which won the best animation Oscar at the 2017 awards – shared a double-barrelled surname, but their exact relationship was never made explicit.
(18) ), tule elk (Cervus elaphus nannodes), Roosevelt elk (C. e. roosevelti), pronghorn antelope (Antilocapra americana), California bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis californiana), Peninsular bighorn sheep (O. c. cremnobates) and desert bighorn sheep (O. c. nelsoni) and analyzed them for agar gel precipitating (AGP) antibodies to bluetongue (BT) virus (BTV).
(19) In addition, blood from 36 of the above antelope and from a further 48 buffalo was inoculated into rodents to test for the presence of trypanosomes.
(20) A 10-week-old, black buck antelope calf, from the Mesker Park Zoo in Evansville, Indiana was found dead without observed signs of illness.
Deer
Definition:
(n. sing. & pl.) Any animal; especially, a wild animal.
(n. sing. & pl.) A ruminant of the genus Cervus, of many species, and of related genera of the family Cervidae. The males, and in some species the females, have solid antlers, often much branched, which are shed annually. Their flesh, for which they are hunted, is called venison.
Example Sentences:
(1) We examined the karyotype in five individuals of roe-deer (Capreolus capreolus), coming from Southern Moravia.
(2) An experimental Anaplasma marginale infection was induced in a splenectomized mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus hemionus) which persisted subclinically at least 376 days as detected by subinoculation into susceptible cattle.
(3) No cross reactions were found between bluetongue and epizootic haemorrhagic disease of deer viruses.
(4) Platinum deer mice are conspicuously pale, with light ears and tail stripe.
(5) Here we show that the subsequent survival and reproductive success of subordinate female red deer is depressed more by rearing sons than by rearing daughters, whereas the subsequent fitness of dominant females is unaffected by the sex of their present offspring.
(6) We conclude from this study that there is little or no seasonal photoperiodic entrainment of the antler and testicular cycles of males in this population of axis deer.
(7) Specimens of human bone from the site exhibited lower strontium levels and strontium-to-calcium ratios than deer specimens from the same site, reinforcing paleodemographic evidence that the human populations that inhabited this site included substantial amounts of meat in their diets.
(8) Although approximately 29% of the inoculum was recovered from the hepatic parenchyma of the sheep, F. hepatica was found in only one of six inoculated deer.
(9) Thyroxine (T4), triiodothyronine (T3), and alkaline phosphatase (AP) were assayed monthly in white-tailed deer plasma obtained from the antler (A), jugular (J), and the saphenous (S) veins during the period of antler growth and the period of mineralization.
(10) Naturally occurring transmissible spongiform encephalopathies have been recognised in sheep, man, mink, captive deer and cattle.
(11) Seasonal levels of androstenedione and testosterone were investigated in plasma of mature intact and castrated male white-tailed deer.
(12) Rabbits were hyperimmunized using erythrocytes from either normal or Theileria infected deer.
(13) Adult F hepatica flukes were recovered from experimentally infected sheep and ESP obtained from the flukes; portions of liver were cut and frozen at -70 C. Fascioloides magna adults were collected from naturally infected white-tailed deer and ESP obtained; portions of liver were collected from noninfected white-tailed deer.
(14) Père David's deer hinds were treated with GnRH, administered as intermittent i.v.
(15) A technique for removing the pineal gland in adult and young male deer is described.
(16) The dispersion pattern of ticks on deer was aggregated, with twice and three times as many ticks collected from bucks as from does and from fawns, respectively.
(17) The aim of this work was to determine whether a herpesvirus serologically related to bovine herpesvirus 1 (BHV1) may occur in a stressed white-tailed deer population.
(18) Our results indicated that analyses of helminth communities of deer from this geographical area do not provide a useful quantification technique for determining deer condition, degree of hybridization, or levels of intraspecific competition.
(19) This report, based on police records submitted to the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet from 1987 through 1989, characterizes motor-vehicle collisions with deer in Kentucky.
(20) Unusual to see one around here until just recently.” More deer vaulted in front of my car on Yubari’s main street the following day, forcing a swerve.